Today is the Reveal Day for the Material Mavens internet art quilting blog that is so dear to my heart! the theme this time was "Green." As soon as I learned what the theme was, I knew that at long last I could make a lizard quilt. Lizards of all kinds fascinate me, but dearest to my heart are the little green geckos that so often appear on either our door or window screens. So I planned to base my quilt on these little lizards.
I found coloring book images of geckos and I traced them onto freezer paper and then cut them out to be patterns. These I ironed to two different green batiks and cut them out, fusing them to the background. The background fabric is another batik, black with jungle-like foliage in green and blue.
I decided to quilt this quilt by hand with embroidery stitches, and so I followed the designs in the background. I beaded both geckos with tiny green beads and used orange ones for their eyes.
The backing for my quilt is a commercial print of lizards in many colors--a fabric I love and will use someday in a large quilt. Below is a close-up of the quilt and then a view of the back of the quilt.
For the edges, I zig-zag stitched four times around the quilt--twice in black thread, once each in blue and green, using rayon thread for all.
